MCTS .NET Application Development Foundation - 70-536 – Objectives List Part 4 (Implementing serialization and input/output functionality in a .NET Framework application)

Serialize or deserialize an object or an object graph by using runtime serialization techniques.

• Serialization
  
  • Serialization How-to Topics
  • Binary Serializaion
  • XML and SOAP Serialization
• Serialization interfaces
  
  • IDeserializationCallback interface
  • IFormatter interface
  • IFormatterConverter interface
  • ISerializable interface
• Object Serialization useing C#
• Serilization attributes
  
  • OnDeserializedAttribute Class
  • OnDeserializingAttribute class
  • OnSerializedAttribute class
  • OnSerializingAttribute class
  • OptionalFieldAttribute class
• SerializationEntry structure
• SerializationInfo class
• ObjectManager class
• Formatter class
• FormatterConverter class
• FormatterServices class
• StreamingContext structure

Control the serialization of an object into XML format by using the System.Xml.Serialization namespace.

• How to: Serialize an Object
• How to: Deserialize an Object
• Attributes That Control XML Serialization
• Controlling XML Serialization Using Attributes
• System.Xml.Serialization Namespace
• XmlSerializer Class
  
  • XmlSerializer.Serialize Method
  • XmlSerializer.Deserialize Method
• Examples of XML Serialization
• IXmlSerializable Interface
• Delegates and event handlers provided by the System.Xml.Serialization namespace
  
  • UnreferencedObjectEventHandler Delegete
  • XmlAttributeEventHandler Delegete
  • XmlElementEventHandler Delegate
  • XmlNodeEventHandler Delegate
  • XmlSerializationCollectionFixupCallback Delegate
  • XmlSerializationFixupCallback Delegate
  • XmlSerializationReadCallback Delegate
  • XmlSerializationWriteCallback Delegate
  
  

Implement custom serialization formatting by using the Serialization Formatter classes.

• System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters Namespace
• SoapFormatter Class
• BinaryFormatter Class
• Custom Serialization

Access files and folders by using the File System classes.

• Basic File I/O
  
  • How to: Create a Directory Listing
  • How to: Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File
  • How to: Open and Append to a Log File
  • How to: Write Text to a File
  • How to: Read Text from a File
  • How to: Read Characters from a String
  • How to: Write Characters to a String
  • How to: Add or Remove Access Control List Entries
  • How to: Compress Files
  • Common I/O Tasks
• File class
• FileInfo class
• Directory class
• DirectoryInfo class
• DriveInfo class
• DriveType enumeration
• FileSystemInfo class
• FileSystemWatcher class
• Path class
• ErrorEventArgs class
• ErrorEventHandler delegate
• RenamedEventArgs class
• RenamedEventHandler delegate

Manage byte streams by using Stream classes.

• FileStream class
• Stream class
• MemoryStream class
• BufferedStream class

Manage the .NET Framework application data by using Reader and Writer classes.

• StringReader class
• StringWriter class
• TextReader class
• TextWriter class
• StreamReader class
• StreamWriter class
• BinaryReader class
• BinaryWriter class

Compress or decompress stream information in a .NET Framework application and improve the security of application data by using isolated storage.

• System.IO.Compression Namespace
• System.IO.IsolatedStorage Namespace
• CompressionMode Enumeration
• Isolated Storage
  
  • Introduction to Isolated Storage
  • Scenarios for Isolated Storage
  • Types of Isolation
  • Performing Isolated Storage Tasks
• IsolatedStorageFile class
• IsolatedStorageFileStream class
• DeflateStream class
• GZipStream class